Hello - I come from a time when many of you might not even be born.
That was before fancy GUIs.
I love GUIs, and love Mountain Lion, but part of me wants to use Linux like the way I did with my 8-bit computers back in the day.
I actually know how to, say, program C and JavaScript, etc. and compile, but only if I am following the instructions on what to type to do the compilation. I know how to do "ls" to list the directory. That's about it.
I tried reading many books but they were either all over the place, or focused on Linux GUIs.
Where do you recommend I start?
I'm now installing YDL on my old iBook G4. I chose all the packages (development, web server, etc.).
What I want to know are the basics of using the shell, and how to compile my own binaries from source. See, I know all these concepts but I just don't know how to type the commands in the console in Linux. I've actually written C programs to read text files, parse them the way I want (parsing CSV data, basically), but I did all that without really understanding the Linux or Unix (it was on Darwin actually) operating system itself.
Thanks.